Current Event 12

Current Events #12. A selection of UK art exhibitions on in week 12 of 2018.
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Beneath the Canopy

31 March – 30 June 2018

An exhibition that includes paintings, sculpture, ceramics and jewellery that focuses on tress, birds and insects. Particularly the branches of trees and wildlife they support.

Here Bellido’s work looks at stillness and uses inks alongside silkscreen.

Artichoke Gallery
Church Street
Ticehurst
TN5 7AE

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[city]Frequency: Make Zimmermann

22 March – 1 April 2018

This exhibition explores urban experiences and is an audio-visual installation looking at documentaries and narrative as part of human ecology.

A.P.T Gallery
Harold Wharf, 6 Creekside
Deptford, London
SE8 4SA

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Stephen Chambers: The Court of Redonda

24 February – 20 May 2018

This major exhibition by Stephen Chambers introduces ‘The Court of Redonda’, a collective portrait of an imaginary court of maverick and singular individuals. it includes 101 paintings with artists imagining an alternative world.

‘Curated by Emma Hill, The Court of Redonda was made over a two-year period that coincided with Britain’s referendum about leaving the European Union and touches upon themes of identity, heredity and nationalism.  She says, “The Court of Redonda is woven from a story about an uninhabited place, which writers and artists have envisioned.  It is a work about the collective human spirit.  The expression of the necessity and freedom of creative imagination, for art’s ability to reflect to us the moment we are living in and for an individual artist’s statement to carry the weight of this, is at the heart of images Chambers presents us with in the faces of his imaginary courtiers.”‘

The Heong Gallery
Downing College, University of Cambridge,
Regent St, Cambridge
CB2 1DQ

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Context: Gallery Artists & Collaborators

23 February – 31 March 2018

This exhibition includes the work of 19 artists, who are gallery artists or regular contributors, it includes painting, drawing, sculpture & installation.

Exhibiting artists:
Peter Ashton Jones, Emma Bennett, Kiera Bennett, Tom Butler, Dan Coombs, Florian Heinke, Sam Jackson, Reece Jones, Kate Lyddon, Eric Manigaud, Wendy Mayer, Hugh Mendes, Alex Gene Morrison, Gavin Nolan, Dominic Shepherd, John Stark, Geraldine Swayne, Barry Thompson, Gavin Tremlett.

Gallery Director Zavier Ellis states:
“In some ways a gallery artists show is a pretty dull and unimaginative thing to do. But, on the upside it enables our audience to digest our stable in context. We are mostly a painter’s gallery, albeit with a curatorial emphasis that embraces every medium when appropriate. The artists we exhibit are technical, but this is nowhere near enough in itself. You will find that each one of them makes work with an intense emotional, philosophical or psychological charge, and so their work operates in a challenging, profound way.
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CHARLIE SMITH LONDON,
336 Old Street,
Shoreditch,
London EC1V 9DR

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Width of Circle

22 March – 3 May 2018

This is the first of a series of exhibitions titled “WIDTH OF CIRCLE”, which is intended to explore the areas of interest that will shape the further series and identity of the overall project.

Exhibiting artists:
Lex Thomas, Olha Pryymak, Dominic Shepherd, Peter Burns and Ben Sadler.

Width of Circle
Titan House
Old Wharf Road
Stourbridge
DY84LS

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Stations: Simon Carter

2 March – 6 April 2018

An exhibition of Simon Carter’s paintings.

Oasis Cafe,
2 Connaught Avenue,
Frinton-on-Sea

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Secret of the Landscape|

23 February 2018 – 6 April 2018

Curated by Rita Selvaggio this show deals with landscape as a mental, tactile, physical and spatial passage, an emotional geography that can be expanded, deconstructed, reassembled and reimagined.

Exhibiting artists include:
Isabelle Cornaro, Giulia Piscitelli, Jessica Warboys

‘Jessica Warboys’ Sea Paintings are made below the high water line at the sea’s edge. After immersion, the sodden canvases are pulled from the sea and laid out on the beach. Mineral pigments are thrown directly onto the sea beaten fabric; its folds and creases catching the grains of colour. The process is then repeated with the canvas returning to the sea or being left to dry on the beach. The sea, wind, and sand along with the pigment and the artist’s hand create forms through the movement of colour. The place and date of making is given in each work’s title, emphasizing the mirroring of location and time.’

Frith Street Gallery
Soho Square, 60 Frith Street
London
W1D 3JJ

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#pengtings

27 March – 1 April 2018
Private View: Thursday 29 March 6-9pm

#pengtings is an exhibition by a group of international female artists who are consciously choosing to confront how they present interpretations of the world and how they weave into this interpretation their own desire.

‘Social media has given us all carte blanche to reinvent ourselves as super-human, exaggerating how we look and artificially enhancing what we believe are our best features. The pressure surrounding body image is a real and growing issue and can occasionally manifest itself in anxiety and mental illness. There are numerous ways to define beauty and catching a moment to appreciate it can be a way to alleviate the stresses of life and escape into a world of imagination. This can be achieved with art that pushes the boundaries of what is real and can imitate itself within painting, drawing, and sculpture.’

Exhibiting artists:
Caroline Lovett, Diana Sandetskaya, Jacqui Grant, Josette Aitman,
Michelle Karpus, Tania Askar, Victoria Perloff

Curated by Jacqui Grant

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Our Exhibition Calendar

Please let us know about your exhibition. We may be able to include it in future Current Events.

See more exhibitions on our Artist Calendar.

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The image at the top is:The Beast, 2017, Oil on Linen, 40x56cm by Dominic Shepherd, who is showing at Width of Circle.

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